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--- On Wed, 8/17/11, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Paul <[email protected]> > Subject: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Qustions When Running from Live CD > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, August 17, 2011, 10:22 AM > > > --- In [email protected], > "andersonradioactivity" <andersonradioactivity@...> > wrote: > > > > Hi; > > > > I'm doing some learning on a spare machine running an > older CD (Knoppix 6.2). > > > > How can I: > > > > Enable Flash? I can get all over the net with > IceWeasel, but can't view anything Flash. > > > > Access other machines on my network? I'd like to > work on open office text files on a computer in another > room, as well as listen to MP3 files on my home media > server. This is a wired network. > > > > Thanks, > > > > DW > > > > Live CDs are fun to play around with but hardly worth > configuring being as when you shut them off it all goes > away. > > Most of your questions are difficult to answer because we > have no way of knowing exactly what the hardware you have > elsewhere is, runs etc. > > NFS http://nfs.sourceforge.net/ and SMB http://www.samba.org/ come to mind as > two possibilities > depending on what else is going on. I don't run a mixed > network (I don't do Windows) or own Apple anything myself so > I don't know anything about that. Though it wouldn't > surprise me if Apple could NFS with Linux. It is just BSD > they stole^H^H^H^H^H use isn't it? If there is one thing > Linux is about it is networking. > > Box I'm on now runs HTTP and FTP among other things. I need > to setup NFS on my machine upstairs, really I do ... > > P.S. ^H will be lost on most here (it is what the backspace > key used to do by default) but I can remember when I had to > edit termcap to fix it. Linux has made some progress since > then. Not all of it positive to me. > > > Paul, thanks for your reply as well. Cutting to the quick & easy, Live is great for playing, familiarizing, & comparing distros (within limits). I'm getting the impression that when I get the chance to download newer versions to USB instead of two year old CD's, things may work a bit better. I have to admit though, that these live CD's have saved my tail section more than once on windows failures!! > ------------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from this list, please email > [email protected] > & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links > > > [email protected] > > > ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
